How to say "longing, yearning" in Arabic
CognateMeaninglonging, yearning
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
شَوْق
shawqשוק
شوق
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
געגועים
ga'agu'imگَاءَاگُوئِيم
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ش-و-قHebrew root
ש-ו-קHebrew תְּשׁוּקָה, 'desire, longing' — famous from Genesis — is built on this same root ש-ו-ק, a match the classic Hebrew dictionaries draw. Arabic uses the root bare: shawq is the ache of missing someone or somewhere.
Related Hebrew word:תשוקהteshukaتِشُوكَا
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In a phrase
اَلشَّوْق إِلَى الْبَيْت
ash-shawq ilā l-baytא-שוק אלא אל-ביתlonging for home